Louise Keali'iloma King Lanzilotti

Louise Keali'iloma King Lanzilotti

Louise Keali‘iloma King Lanzilotti comes from a multi-ethnic background that has informed many of her beliefs. Her experience covers artistic, educational and administrative areas of the arts. As a conductor, she has been the musical director for many musicals in the past thirty years. In 2010, she founded Kalikolehua – El Sistema Hawai‘i, a free orchestra program for children from underserved neighborhoods, focused on transforming lives through music. She was the Managing Director of Honolulu Theatre for Youth for ten years (2001-2011), guiding it to greater stability through creative solutions and extensive partnerships. She served as Curator of Education at the former Contemporary Museum for thirteen years (1988-2001). Lanzilotti taught for over twenty years in public, private and alternative schools K – 12, developing a method of writing music and plays with students, which solidified her understanding of the importance of arts engagement for all.

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A final day for new releases (for now). Today I'm playing music by CPE Bach, JS Bach, Amy Beach, Arvo Pärt, Mozart, Euguen Friesen, Beethoven, Harold Gramatges, Radamés Gnattali and Brahms. An ecelectic mix of old and new.

Whenever I can, I share new arrivals to our music library and, particularly new releases. Yesterday I shared new releases from 2017 and 2018, and I continue to do so today. You'll hear music by Schubert, Bartók, Brahms, Haydn, Philip Glass, Gaspar Sanz, CPE and JS Bach, Francisco José de Castro and Finn Mortensen. If any of the CDs interest you, you can get more information about them from the playlist, which is at the bottom of this post, and can also be found on the website hawaiipublicradio or on the HPR App while the program is in session.

We continue to receive new recordings of work from the entire history of Classical Music, and I love to let you hear them for the first time. For the next two days, I'm playing recordings from 2017 and 2018. The work ranges from Spanish Baroque music to contemporary viola music.

I've really enjoyed getting to know about the musical interests of the HPR staff. Today we'll hear works by composers from Beethoven to Ligety to Poulenc. Some people were even specific about which recording to play, while others left the decision up to me.

During the fund drive, I walked around asking the staff what they might like to hear on Classical Pacific, and they had very interesting requests. Today and possibly tomorrow, I'm playing their picks during the program. From PR to Operations to News, the requests were unique and sometimes surprising, ranging from "anything Baroque" to the Poulenc Organ Concerto to Ligety and all kids of music in between. Join me to find out what music they chose.

Today I've chosen works written by composers whose names beginning with the letter P. Listen for music by Palestrina, Piston, Prokofiev, Portman, Purcell, Pärt, Monce, Piazzola, Paganini, Penderecki and Porter Aside from the letter P, their works could hardly be more diverse. Enjoy.

Back to Music by the Letters. Today - the Letter M. I find that picking in this manner reminds me to choose beyond my normal preferences. I'm choosing from a large pile of CDs that includes the music of Menotti, Myaskovsky, Mozart, Messaien, Milhaud, Mendelssohn, Martinu, Mancini, Mercadante, MacDowell, Myerbeer, Maconchy, Moravich and Muhly. Let me know if you hear anything new and interesting.

Today and tomorrow, a brief look at the movement that began in earnest in the 1950s to perform Early, Baroque and Classical period music with instruments that the composers would have been writing for at the time, and in the way that they might have interpreted the music then. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Alice Hoffelner founded Concentus Musicus Wien in 1953, followed by other pioneers - Gustav Leonhardt, John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, and Ton Koopman, to name a few.

On this final day of playing new arrivals (for now), I've decided to focus on the Romantic period. Composers for the day include Robert Schumann, Anatoly Lyadov, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Holst, Franz Schubert, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Today - new arrivals in the Music Library of works by three giants of the classical period - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - including two symphonies, a string quartet, a violin sonata, two piano concerti and a violin sonata. Even in this small volume of work, the great amount of change and development in classical music shines through.

If you're a regular listener, you know by now that I love finding new arrivals to the Music Library, so I'm continuing in that vein today, featuring music by Antonïn Dvorák, Leos Janácek, Georges Bizet, Georg Philip Telemann, Maurice Ravel, Mauro Giuliani, Louise Farrenc and Robert Schumann.

Some new arrivals drifted to the surface of our Music Library when we cleaned up the space before the last fundraiser. Some of these CDs are new releases; others are not, but are newly acquired. Join me for music by Brahms, Gertrude van den Bergh, Mozart, John Danyel, Bach, Fauré, Gabrieli and Haydn.

After four days of orchestral music by orchestras from the Pacific Rim, it's time for some smaller ensembles. Today, solo and ensemble works by Haydn, Kodaly, Poulenc, Schubert, Brahms, Webern, Schumann, Miaskovsky and Bach. A lovely way to spend a Friday afternoon with you.

This week I'm featuring some of the many Pacific Rim Symphony Orchestras. I've visited the San Francisco, Seattle and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. Today, it's back to the US and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by a copper baron, William Andrews Clark, Jr. The orchestra has developed a reputation for promoting new music and making bold, innovative choices in leadership and programming, including the hiring of its latest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel. Since we spent an entire day of the fund drive focusing on Dudamel, I won't be including any works conducted by him today.

This week I'm featuring some of the many Pacific Rim Symphony Orchestras. So far you've heard music from the San Francisco and Seattle Symphony Orchestras. Today, we travel south and West to hear music of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, which had several early incarnations and became permanent in 1946. The orchestra is a crown entity, owned by the government of New Zealand. It's home is in Wellington, and the orchestra regularly tours to Auckland, Christchurch and other sites within New Zealand.

This week I'm featuring Pacific Rim Symphony Orchestras. Yesterday the focus was the San Francisco Symphony. Today it's the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1903. Notable conductors have included Sir Thomas Beecham, Milton Katims, Gerard Schwartz, current director Ludovic Morlot and upcoming director Thomas Dausgaard. A work commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, Become Ocean, by John Luther Adams (not to be confused with John Adams) won the Pullitzer Prize for Music in 2014. Join me to hear the collective voice of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

This week I'm focusing on orchestras of the Pacific Rim, beginning with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1911. Since 1935, its conductors have included Pierre Monteux, Enrique Jorda, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstadt, and, since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas, or, as musicians and fans like to call him, MTT. I'll share performances with the orchestra by some of these maestros. Join me!

So many conductors - so little time. Today I'm continuing to look at conductors who've made indelible marks on Classical music performance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Their conducting reflects the changes in style and in what constitutes Classical music over the past century. A German, an Englishman and an American woman will conduct the work of Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Adams, Sibelius, Milhaud, Tower, Barber, Johnson and O'Connor.

JoAnn Falletta was chosen by you, the listeners, to be the Number 1 Magical Maestro of the fund drive. I begin today with some examples of her work, and follow with some other deserving conductors in the second and third hour today, and all of tomororow. Among them, they will conduct works by Nino Rota, Alfredo Catalani, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Joseph Kreutzer, Joaquin Rodrigo, Dmitri Shostakovich and Germaine Tailleferre.

Today is the third day of a review of the Magical Maestros - conductors chosen by you, the listeners, to highlight during the Spring fund drive. I'm reviewing them through some of their outstanding recordings this week. Today, numbers 4 - Georg Solti, 3 - Seiji Ozawa, and 2 - Leonard Bernstein. I'll be playing more extended examples of their work than we had time for during the drive.

All week I'm reviewing the Magical Maestros chosen by you, the listeners of HPR, then adding a few others deserving of praise toward the end of the week. I'm not necessarily going in order. Enjoy the work of these amazing artists with me from 3-6pm today on HPR2.

Call 944-8800 to donate from Ō’ahu, 888-970-8800 from the other islands, the mainland and Canada, or donate on the website or the HPR App.

The Spring Membership Drive has ended on a very successful note. I want to thank all of the people who donated, volunteered, fed us, spoke on air in support of our mission and helped throughout the drive. I have a new respect for the entire HPR community, which spreads throughout Hawai‘i, the mainland and internationally. For most of this week I'll be reviewing the Magical Maestros that were chosen by you, the listeners. I may even have some time to play a few that didn't make the cut but are amazing in their own right.

Only a few hours to go on the membership drive for Spring 2018, and we're doing very well. Mahalo to the many donors we've had for the past ten days. I don't know exactly what music I'll be playing today - if the drive ends before Classical Pacific, I'll be doing a full three hour program - but I have all the music lined up for the day, whether in pledge mode or full mode.

Call 944-8800 to donate from Ō’ahu, 888-970-8800 from the other islands, the mainland and Canada, or donate on the website or the HPR App.

Day nine of the Membership Drive We're almost there. Mahalu nui loa to all of the donors so far, whether you are new, renewing or sustaining. We've recevied donations from throughout Hawai‘i, as well as from the mainland US and Canada, and from other countries. Today I'll be playing music of the Magical Maestro of the Day (listen to find out who you chose), and will play music by Smetana, Schubert, Bernstein, Beethoven Brahms, Handel and Bach.

At the beginning of the eighth day of the Membership Drive, we've raised over $500,000 towards our $865,000 goal. Mahalo nui loa to all of the donors so far, whether you are new, renewing or sustaining. We've recevied donations from throughout Hawai‘i, as well as from the mainland US and Canada, and from other countries. Today I'll be playing music of the Magical Maestro of the Day (listen to find out who you chose), and will play music by Wagner, Bach, Dvorák, Offenbach, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Fauré and Tchaikovsky. Don't wait until the last day to donate!

Today is day seven of the membership drive, and we've raised over $500,000 so far, with almost 500 new members joining as well. Mahalu nui loa to all of the donors so far, whether you are new, renewing or sustaining. We continue to receive donations from throughout Hawai‘i, as well as from the mainland US and Canada, and from other countries. Today I'll be playing music of the Magical Maestro of the Day (listen to find out who you chose), and will play music by Beethoven, Telemann, Bach, Brahms, Bizet, Ravel and Dvorák.

We begin the second half of the Spring Membership Drive with less than $400,000 to go on a goal of about $880,000. Mahalu nui loa to all of the donors so far, whether you are new, renewing or sustaining. We've recevied donations from throughout Hawai‘i, as well as from the mainland US and Canada, and from other countries. Today I'll be playing music of the Magical Maestro of the Day (listen to find out who you chose), and will play music by Bach, Mussorsky, Brahms, Turina, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Johann Strauss II.

Fund Drive day two. Yesterday was an exciting first day for the fund drive. I won't know the totals for the day until I get to the station, but calls, online pledges and pledges on the HPR App were rolling in so fast that in the last two breaks on Classical Pacific we just read lots of thank yous on the air. The Magical Maestro for the day (#10) was Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra - keep listening to find out who the next one is.